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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ornithology, the stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers; molting.
- n. In pathology, an affection of the eyelids in which the eyelashes drop out.
Wiktionary
- n. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
- n. medicine A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
- n. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
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- See deplumate. (Wiktionary)
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